Thanks! I see now. It looks like a lot of these Chinese spindles for the CNC 6040s are 400Hz base, but I will double check the specs on mine before running it!
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Thanks! I see now. It looks like a lot of these Chinese spindles for the CNC 6040s are 400Hz base, but I will double check the specs on mine before running it!
Gecko G540 and MeanWell 12.5A 48V PSU have showed up. I started building a new controller box out of a metal enclosure I found at Goodwill! Hopefully I can have this thing fired up in a few more days.
Can someone explain what the MAIN and BASE frequency actually do? And why do these guides have us setting them to 400Hz? Why does it default to 50?
I read another post that said to change base...
If you're gonna use Loctite, the stuff you want to use is NOT the threadlocker, but rather "Sleeve Retainer". It's green. Here:
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Garbage, have you considered a Tormach machine? You can get a 440 starting at $5k or so. If you're actually using this for a business I would consider getting something that will have better the...
Oh yeah for sure, the stock drives and spindles are pretty horrible. My friend has a G0704 and got the CNC kit from a company i can't remember the name of but they make really nice kits for all the...
That's not a fair comparison though. A OMIO is about 3x the cost of a regular 6040. If you had $3k to spend on a machine, I would think a CNC retrofit on a Grizzly milling machine would be a better...
Thanks BBM. Yeah, I was trying to run this with an old laptop, because that's what I have. But, the video that came with the machine clearly shows being able to hook this black controller cable up...
Sounds like a language barrier thing. A lot of these sellers on Ebay are in China and they just list stuff, and the Ebay website (if you've ever sold anything) is frankly horrible. They make it worse...
Nobody, eh? Beuller?
I was looking at the driver for the mystery black cable and it shows up as PlanetCNC USBCNC . I looked up PlanetCNC and they don't appear to make a cable like this, so I...
So I just unboxex a new 6040 from eBay and spindle and VFD work, so moved on to the controller.
I don't own a computer with a parallel port (lol who the hell does???) So I am using the included...